Improvement in shortened soles for boots and shoes



R. PEBBLES &. W. H. CDWING.

Shortened Soles for Boots and Shoes. N0. 146,276,- Patentedllan.`6,874.

UNITED STATES PATENT AOTTICHE N RILEY PEBBLES, OF NATIOK, AND WALTER H. COWING, OF BOSTON, ASSIGN- ORS TO THEMSELYES AND GEORGE E. HATCH, OF BOSTON, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHORTENED SOLES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,276, dated January 6, 1874; application filed May e, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, RILEY PEBBLEs, of Natick, Middlesex county, and WALTER H. OowrNG, of Boston, in the county of Suiolk, all in the State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shortened Soles for Boots and Shoes; and we do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specitication, is a description of our invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to pra-ctice it.

In the manufacture of boots and shoes it has, to some extent, become customary to cut the soles without heel portions, Vor heel-sh0rtened soles, the soles between the heel and upper being pieced, the soles being thus cut to save stock. lu such construction, however, it is always more or less difficult to piece out the sole, and it is an open question as to there being muclnsaving in the end; but in our inven tion we use the heel-shortened sole for attachment of the rand, and for application of the shank or shank-stitfener, the rand and shank effecting the heel extension, the rand making the contour and adjacent portion and the shank the filling inside of the rand. The opposite ends of the bent rand we tack to the shortcned-sole end and the outer end of the shank to the bottom of the rand, the shank passing through the rand-opening to the top of the sole.

Our invention consists in the shortened sole having the rand and the shank thus united.

The drawing represents a sole'embodying our construction.

Figure l shows the upper side of the sole; Fig. 2, a bottom view thereof. Fig. 3 shows the sole in edge view. Figs. 4 and 5 show, in top and edge view, the shank-stiiiener.

a denotes the sole; b, the heel end thereof. d is the rand; c, the shank or shank stiffener or filler. The rand is an ordinary rand, and, being bent and its thin edge crimped in the usual manner, the opposite ends are tacked to the sole by tacks, the sole embracing the rand, being then of the ordinary form of a sole cut in full shape. The rand having been thus applied, the outer end of the shank e is tacked to the bottom surface of the rand, as seen in Fig. 2, the shank forming the lling to the rand as well as the. stitiening and lling to the shank of the sole. The ends of the rand, `and the surface ofthe sole to which such ends are united, are scarl-"ed, as seen at f.

By this construction, we not only effect the saving due to the shortened sole, but we use the sole to attach and hold the rand, and e'ect the filling by the shank, and connect these respective parts, so that the sole, rand, and shank-stiftener form one complete whole.

For iilling the rand and bringing the surface to the plane of the bottom of the sole, the heel end of the shank-stiener is preferably made approximately semicircular in shape, and with a shoulder, g, as seen in Figs. 4 and 5.

We claimy A shortened sole having shank-sti'ener e, shouldered to form the randiillin g, and applied as set forth.

Executed this 23d day of April, A. D. 1873.

RILEY PEBBLES. WALTER H. COVVING. Witnesses:

FnANcrs GoULD, M. W. FROTEINGEAM. 

